Facet
['fæsɪt;-et] or ['fæsɪt]
解释:
(n.) A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.
(n.) A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.
(n.) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
(n.) One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.
(v. t.) To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.
校对:佩里
同义词及近义词：
n. small face or surface.
巴贝奇录入
解释:
n. a small surface as of a crystal.—v.t. to cut a facet upon or cover with facets.—adj. Fac′eted having or formed into facets.
艾伯特整理
例句:
- In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- To see that is to see exposed an important facet of the American temperament. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Each facet of a diamond (by reason of the method of cutting) is a window looking down a clearly defined walled chamber, like a hall-way to the culet. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- From this beginning cutters gradually added additional facets to increase the brilliancy until there were thirty-four in all. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- No other thing can scratch or mar the polished facets and sharp corners of the diamond. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It has fifty-eight facets, of which thirty-three, including the table, are above the girdle and twenty-five, including the culet, below the girdle. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In a perfectly cut diamond, the facets are so carefully arranged that entering rays of light jump from wall to wall of this transparent enclosure and emerge again at the very point of entry. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The fifty-eight facets are cut and polished one at a time on a rapidly-revolving wheel charged with diamond dust and oil. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
德斯蒙德录入